Publications

Journal Articles

• B. Lacruz-Pleguezuelos, A. Pérez-Cuervo, D. Coleto-Checa, G. Bazán, S. Romero-Tapiador, G. Freixer, J. Fernández-Cabezas, E. Aguilar-Aguilar, A. Martín-Segura, N. Cárdenas-Roig, L. Carrasco-Guijarro, L.P. Fernández, I. Espinosa-Salinas, A. Ramírez de Molina, A. Morales, R. Tolosana, J. Ortega-Garcia, V. Pancaldi, L. Judith Marcos-Zambrano and E. Carrillo de Santa Pau. Network Topology of the Gut Microbiome Associates with Metabolic Health in Obesity. Nature Communications, 2026.

• M. Robledo-Moreno, R. Vera-Rodriguez, R. Tolosana, J. Ortega-Garcia. Kinematic hallucinations in vision-language models: A study on zero-shot signature veritifacion. Pattern Recognition Letters, 2026.

• B. Biesseck, P. Vidal, L. Coelho, R. Granada, R. Tolosana, D. Menotti. Are Synthetic Data As Good As Real Data For Recognizing Doppelgängers and Twins Faces?. IEEE Access, 2026.

• J. Muñoz-Haro, R. Tolosana, J. Fierrez, R. Vera-Rodriguez, A. Morales. Privacy-Aware Detection of Fake Identity Documents: Methodology, Benchmark, and Improved Algorithms (FakeIDet2). Information Fusion, 2026.

• S. Romero-Tapiador, R. Tolosana, A. Morales, B. Lacruz-Pleguezuelos, S. Bosch Pastor, L.J. Marcos-Zambrano, G.X. Bazán, G. Freixer, R. Vera-Rodriguez, J. Fierrez, J. Ortega-Garcia, I. Espinosa-Salinas, E. Carrillo de Santa Pau. Personalized Weight Loss Management through Wearable Devices and Artificial Intelligence. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2026.

• S. Romero-Tapiador, P. Rodriguez-Mier, M. Garrido-Rodriguez, R. Tolosana, A. Morales, J. Saez-Rodriguez. ScAPE: A lightweight multitask learning baseline method to predict transcriptomic responses to perturbations. Bioinformatics, under review.

• B. Lacruz-Pleguezuelos, G.X. Bazan, S. Romero-Tapiador, G. Freixer, R. Tolosana, R. Daza, C.M. Fernández-Díaz, S. Molina, M. Carmen Crespo, T. Laguna, L. Judith Marcos-Zambrano, E. Aguilar-Aguilar, J. Fernandez-Cabezas, S. Cruz-Gil, L.P. Fernandez, R. Vera-Rodriguez, J. Fierrez, A. Ramirez de Molina, J. Ortega-Garcia, A. Morales, E. Carrillo de Santa Pau, I. Espinosa-Salinas. AI4Food, A feasibility Study for the Implementation of Automated Devices in the Nutritional Advice and Follow Up within a Weight Loss Intervention. Clinical Nutrition, 2025.

• H. Otroshi Shahreza, P. Melzi, D. Osorio-Roig, C. Rathgeb, C. Busch, S. Marcel, R. Tolosana, R. Vera-Rodriguez. Benchmarking of Cancelable Biometrics for Deep Templates. EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2025.

• N. González, G. Stragapede, R. Vera-Rodriguez, R. Tolosana. Type2Branch: Keystroke Biometrics based on a Dual-branch Architecture with Attention Mechanisms and Set2set Loss. +IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security*, 2025.

• I. DeAndres-Tame, R. Tolosana, P. Melzi, R. Vera-Rodriguez, M. Kim, C. Rathgeb, X. Liu, L.F. Gomez, A. Morales, J. Fierrez, J. Ortega-Garcia, Z. Zhong, Y. Huang, Y. Mi, S. Ding, S. Zhou, S. He, L. Fu, H. Cong, R. Zhang, Z. Xiao, E. Smirnov, A. Pimenov, A. Grigorev, D. Timoshenko, K.M. Asfaw, C.Y. Low, H. Liu, C. Wang, Q. Zuo, Z. He, H.O. Shahreza, A. George, A. Unnervik, P. Rahimi, S. Marcel, P.C. Neto, M. Huber, J.N. Kolf, N. Damer, F. Boutros, J.S. Cardoso, A.F. Sequeira, A. Atzori, G. Fenu, M. Marras, V. Štruc, J. Yu, Z. Li, J. Li, W. Zhao, Z. Lei, X. Zhu, X.-Y. Zhang, B. Biesseck, P. Vidal, L. Coelho, R. Granada and D. Menotti. Second FRCSyn-onGoing: Winning Solutions and Post-Challenge Analysis to Improve Face Recognition with Synthetic Data. Information Fusion, 2025.

Conference Papers

• I. DeAndres-Tame, C. Ye, R.Tolosana, R. Vera-Rodriguez, S. Yu. Is Visual Realism Enough? Evaluating Gait Biometric Fidelity in Generative AI Human Animation. in Proc. International Conference in Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Lyon, France, 2026.

• R. Daza, J. Irigoyen, I. López, R. Rodríguez-Carvajal, L. Gómez-Carbajo, J. Fierrez, R. Tolosana, A. Morales. Evaluating Social Engineering Risks in AI-based Interaction using Biometrics and a Gaming Setup. in Proc. IEEE Intl. Carnahan Conf. on Security Technology (ICCST), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 2026.

• J. Irigoyen, R. Daza, A. Morales, J. Fierrez, R. Tolosana, R. Vera-Rodriguez, F. Jurado, A. Ortigosa. Overview of Risk Assessment and Management for Intelligent Systems under the AI Act and Beyond. in Proc. IEEE Intl. Carnahan Conf. on Security Technology (ICCST), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 2026.

• J. Irigoyen, R. Daza, F. Jurado, J. Fierrez, R. Tolosana, A. Ortigosa, E. Blas, A. Morales. AIriskEval-edu: New Dataset for Risk Assessment in AI-mediated K-12 Educational Explanations. in Proc. IEEE Intl. Carnahan Conf. on Security Technology (ICCST), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 2026.

• M. Robledo-Moreno, R. Vera-Rodriguez, R. Tolosana, J. Ortega-Garcia. Exploring Vision-Language Models for Online Signature Verification: A Zero-Shot Capability Study. In Proc. International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics, Côte d’Azur, France, April 2026.

• P. Jimenez-Lizcano, S. Romero-Tapiador, R. Tolosana, A. Morales, G.G. de Rivera, R. Vera-Rodriguez, J. Fierrez. Exploring Deep Learning and Ultra-Widefield Imaging for Diabetic Retinopathy and Macular Edema. in Proc. IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Granada, Spain, 2026.

• D. Jimenez Oviedo, R. Vera-Rodriguez, R. Tolosana, J. Carlos Ruiz-Garcia, J. Herreros-Rodriguez. Longitudinal Digital Phenotyping for Early Cognitive-Motor Screening. in Proc. IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Granada, Spain, 2026.

• J. Irigoyen, R. Daza, A. Morales, J. Fierrez, F. Jurado, A. Ortigosa, R. Tolosana. EduEVAL-DB: A Role-Based Dataset for Pedagogical Risk Evaluation in Educational Explanations. in Proc. the 16th International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference, Bergen, Norway, 2026.

• P. Korshunov, Vidit, A. Mohammadi, C. Ecabert, N. Shamoska, S. Marcel, Z. Yu, Y. Tian, J. Ni, L. Lazarevic, R. Khizbullin, A. Evteeva, A. Tochin, A. Grishin, A. George, D. DeAlcala, T. Endrei, J. Munoz-Haro, R. Tolosana, R. Vera-Rodriguez, A. Morales, J. Fierrez, G. Cserey, H. Sharma, S. Chaudhary, A. Dudhane, P. Hambarde, A. Shukla, P. Shaily, J. Kumar, A. Hase, S. Maurya, M. Sharma and P. Dwivedi. “DeepID Challenge of Detecting Synthetic Manipulations in ID Documents”. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, ICCVw, 2025. (Second in Track 2 and Fourth in Track 1 of the Challenge)

• J. Muñoz-Haro, R. Tolosana, R. Vera-Rodriguez, A. Morales and J. Fierrez. “FakeIDet: Exploring Patches for Privacy-Preserving Fake ID Detection”. In Proc. IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics, IJCB, Osaka, Japan, 2025.

• L. Pedrouzo-Rodriguez, P. Delgado-DeRobles, Luis F. Gomez, Ruben Tolosana, Ruben Vera-Rodriguez, Aythami Morales, and Julian Fierrez. Is It Really You? Exploring Biometric Verification Scenarios in Photorealistic Talking-Head Avatar Videos. In Proc. IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics, IJCB, Osaka, Japan, 2025.

• K. Nguyen, C. Fookes, S. Sridharan, H. Nguyen, F. Liu, X. Liu, A. Ross, D. Michalski, T. Endrei, I. DeAndres-Tame, R. Tolosana, R. Vera-Rodriguez, A. Morales, J. Fierrez, J. Ortega-Garcia, Z. Gong, Y. Wang, X. Liu, P. Zhang, Md Rashidunnabi, H. Proença, K. A. Hambarde, S. Rezaei. AG-VPReID 2025: Aerial-Ground Video-based Person Re-identification Challenge Results. In Proc. IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics, IJCB, Osaka, Japan, 2025. (Winners of the Challenge)

• S. Jain, S.L. Ahier, P. Melzi, R. Tolosana, R. Vera-Rodriguez, C. Rathgeb. GANDiffKids: Benchmarking Face Recognition for Children on Synthetic Data. in Proc. International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group, BIOSIG, Darmstadt, Germany, 2025.

• S. Romero-Tapiador, R. Tolosana, B. Lacruz-Pleguezuelos, L.J. Marcos-Zambrano, G.X. Bazán, I. Espinosa-Salinas, J. Fierrez, J. Ortega-Garcia, E. Carrillo de Santa Pau, and A. Morales. Are Vision-Language Models Ready for Dietary Assessment? Exploring the Next Frontier in AI-Powered Food Image Recognition. In Proc. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRw, 2025. (Best Paper Award)